We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical … prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and independent of whether punishment is …

autonomy. If this process fails then both regions engage in a costly political conflict which can only lead to the maintenance …, even in a case in which the possibilities for an arrangement without conflict are very salient. In our experimental …

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the …

a debate on the right model can help distinguish between competing theories in the conflict literature. This is …

determined by how the direct conflict resulting from disagreement would be resolved. Our basic building block is the disagreement … individual rationality we reach a unique solution: the agreement in the shadow of conflict, ASC. This agreement may be construed …

determined by how the direct conflict resulting from disagreement would be resolved. Our basic building block is the disagreement … conflict, ASC. This agreement may be construed as the limit of a sequence of partial agreements, each of which is reached as a …

In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion … as indicators for conflict. We show that the (equilibrium) level of conflict can be expressed as an (approximate) linear …

displacements. They were usually meticulously planned and independent of military goals. We provide a model where conflict onset …, conflict intensity and the decision to commit mass killings are all endogenous, with two main goals: (1) to identify the key …

society an explanation for the connection between enfranchisement and growth: When (1) there exist an economic conflict among …